Unseen Versailles by Deborah Turbeville

‘A study of endless hidden and unattended rooms, and of obscure faded forms that live in them still. Inanimate figures collect in the rooms with no more emphasis than have all the other derelict objects and debris - hairpins, leaves, letters, documents, shoes, animals, children, wigs, masks, petticoats - all are fugitive witnesses … so delicate that a window opened might put an end to them. One could imagine voices (recalling some wild birds) so long unheard that the ear finds no human pitch to identify words.’ Turbeville

First edition. Hardback, book in good condition, dust jacket a little worn and torn.